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surgeon Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from Middle English, Old French sur(ri)gien (from a derivative of Late Latin chirurgia ‘handiwork’), hence an occupational name for a person who performed operations, mostly amputations. Before the advent of anaesthetics, only crude surgery was possible, and the calling was often combined with that of the barber or bath house attendant.
  2. French: topographic name for someone who lived close to a gushing spring.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of surgeon Families in the US in 1920
Number of surgeon families
 6-10
 3-5		 1-2
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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